Wrexham have evolved - and why West Brom are the perfect yardstick

As wake-up calls go, it was a big one.Wrexham’s first home game in the second tier for 43 years may have ended in defeat by just a single-goal margin to West Bromwich Albion but, back in August, the gulf in class between two clubs who had never previously met in the EFL felt like a chasm.A little under eight months on and the sense that two very contrasting seasons at either end of the Championship lay ahead has been borne out, though certainly not in the manner suggested back in August when the travelling West Brom fans mockingly sang, “F*** Hollywood” in front of watching celebrity co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac.Advertisement